Robert Stadler was born in 1966 in Vienna. He studied design at IED/Milan and at ENSCI/Paris. In 1992 he cofounded the RADI DESIGNERS group which was active until 2OO8. His work is present in several private and public collections such as Fondation Cartier, Fonds National d'Art Contemporain, MAK - Museum for Applied Arts / Contemporary Art in Vienna, Les Arts Décoratifs in Paris. He works for clients such as Académie des César, Dior, Maison Thierry Costes, Nissan, Orange, Ricard, Take 5 Editions and Thonet. In 2O12 Robert Stadler receives the "Prix Liliane Bettencourt pour l'Intelligence de la main" together with Siegeair's craftsmen.
Robert Stadler intervenes in very diverse fields, obliterating all hierarchies between free proposals, industrial and public commissions. He explores the exhibition space in order to scramble the usual categories of art and design. He questions the status of the object as work of art or product as well as the border between preciousness and lowliness, elegance and vulgarity, the serious and the absurd.
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Born in Vienna, Austria, 1966
Lives and works in Paris, France
EDUCATION
IED/Istituto Europeo di Design, Milan, Italy
ENSCI, Paris, France
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011
1000 jours, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris.
Shading, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London.
Wild at home, Galerie Triple V, Paris.
Ardoises, Galerie de Multiples, Paris.
2008
Dissipations, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris.
Bifurcations, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London.
2006
Roomers, Galerie Traversée, Munich.
Understand what you love, Galerie des Multiples, Paris.
2005
Vacancy / Project Room, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris.
2004
Lost and found, Galerie Dominique Fiat, Paris.
Vanishing point 2, with Jurgen Bey and Konstantin Grcic / KlausEngelhorn22 contemporary design, Vienna.
Vanishing point 1, with Jurgen Bey and Konstantin Grcic / Spazio Erasmus, Milan.
2003
Frontalunterricht, with Stefan Nikolaev / Espace Paul Ricard, Paris.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012
Tapis Parade, Villa Noailles, Hyères.
Ricard SA depuis 1932, Les Arts Décoratifs, Paris.
The Magic of Diversity, MAK, Applied Arts - Contemporary Art, Vienna.
Bright Future: New Designs in Glass, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York.
2011
La Chasse au Snark, Galerie de Multiples, Paris.
Paris opening, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris.
Atomi / curator: Mariuccia Casadio, Galleria Nilufar, Milan.
Di Vaso in Fiore-Inventario tra Natura e Design- / curator: Inventario, Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan.
2010
Split Identities: Objects at the Interstice of Art and Design, 17th edition of the European Triennial of Small-Scale Sculpture / curator: Katia Baudin, Murska Sobota gallery, Slovenia.
Sudeley Castle / Sotheby’s and Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Sudeley Castle, Gloucestershire, UK.
2009
Formlose Möbel, Formless Furniture, Museum für Gestaltung,Zurich, Switzerland.
Design High / curator: Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Louise T BlouinFoundation, London.
Nature in a kit / Mudac, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Thing beware the material, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth.
2008
The Freak Show / curator: La Salle de Bains, Musée de la Monnaie, Paris.
Mayfair opening, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London.
Object factory / curator: Marek Cecula, Gardiner Museum,Toronto, Canada.
Kantlijnen, Musea Brugge, Bruges, Belgium.
Living box, FRAC Pays de la Loire, Nantes, France.
2007
Design contre design, curators: Jean-Louis Gaillemin & Agence Loya-b /Grand Palais, Paris.
The Freak Show / curator: La Salle de Bains / MOCA - Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon, France.
2006
Sieges avec vue…, Design Parade, Villa Noailles, Hyères, France.
2005
Design now, 49 Nord 6 Est - FRAC Lorraine, Metz, France.
2004
Open Borders / curator: Droog Design, Tri Postal, Lille, France.
Trafic d’influences: art et design, Collection of the FRAC Nord - Pas de Calais, Tri Postal, Lille, France.
Design en Stock, 2000 objets du FNAC, Palais de la Porte Dorée, Paris.
2003
Alehop!: ingenious designs and remedies, Palau de la Virreina,Barcelona, Spain.
2002
Less & More, Design Collection of the FNAC, Musée des Arts appliqués, Saint-Etienne, France.
2001
Un Art populaire, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris.
Do Create, Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris.
COLLECTONS
Le Centre national des Arts Plastiques, ‘Troublanc’, ‘Royeroïd’.
Les Arts Décoratifs, France, Objets série ‘Plein Air‘ Ricard.
FRAC Haute-Normandie, France, ‘Ardoises’.
MAK, Museum for Applied Arts - Contemporary Art, Vienna, ‘Grande Tête’.
Musée Magnelli, Musée de la céramique de Vallauris, France, ‘Play/Pause’.
FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, France, ‘Pools & Pouf!’, ‘Lost’.
Centraal Museum in Utrecht, The Netherlands, ‘Do cut’.
FNAC - Fond National d’art Contemporain, Paris, ‘Do cut’, ‘Têtes’, ‘Coureur en soi’, ‘Play/Pause’, ‘Pentaphone’. Fondation Cartier Pour l’art Contemporain, Paris, ‘Culture Populaire’.